Re: How to add additional disk space on Esxi VM series ?

You can only have one virtual disk...You can't continually add a second, third, or fourth...etc if you find yourself running out of diskspace.

I originally made that mistake and had a 500GB partition. I added an extra 1.5TB and while the OS saw the space it couldn't allocate to it. I had to delete the original 500GB partition and just allocate the 2TB.

There's a "Note" in the "Virtual disk" section that describes this limitation, but I missed it (of course initially).

"By default, the Panorama virtual appliance is set up with a single disk partition for all data, and ~10GB of thisspace is allocated for log storage.

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The Panorama virtual appliance by default installs with a virtual disk of size 34GB of which 10.89GB is usedfor logging. To enable more than the ~10GB of storage, use the following procedure to create a new virtual diskthat can support between 40GB to 2TB of storage capacity.

Re: How to add additional disk space on Esxi VM series ?

@Brandon_Wertz: you can actually have 2. you start off with the initial disk the panorama is installed to that comes with a 10GB log partition, afterwards you can add a second disk up to 2tb which will be mounted as the log partition after the panorama is booted up again, the procedure to mount this new drive is described here on page 27: Panorama Administrator's Guide 6.1 (English)

so you could opt to stick with the initial 10gb of log partition, then migrate to a larger secondary disk. if at one point you need even more space you could export the logs, unmount the secondary, mount a larger secondary, import logs